setting off (on a trip); departure
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.
(arch.) office; (arch.) official; chief; head; (Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa) person (usually a woman) whose duty it is to officiate at religions ceremonies
high rice field; very fertile rice field
translation; version (e.g. "English version")
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
district; section; sector
new book; 17x11 cm paperback book
arts and sciences; liberal arts
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)
origin; beginning; source; rise
to feel around for; to fumble for; to investigate; to probe into; to explore (parts unknown); to enjoy (natural beauty)
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition; cognition
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
here and there; little by little; sporadically; dots; spots
reclamation (e.g. wasteland); cultivation; development; pioneering; opening up (e.g. new market); breaking new ground
source (e.g. quotation); authority
Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801)
Commentary on the Kojiki (by Motoori Norinaga, 1798)
re-; again; repeated; deutero-; deuto-; deuter-
Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters; Japan's oldest historical record
qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)